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One of the most interesting and fun aspects of playing DYNASTY League Baseball is developing your Manager Profile identity of the tactics you use when managing your team. When you play a game with the DYNASTY League Baseball Board versionor Online versionyou are developing your own Managerial profile. Do you play for the big inning and the three run HR like Earl Weaver or use one run tactics like stealing and the suicide squeeze like Whitey Herzog? Now your Manager profile identity can be entered into the new DYNASTY League Baseball Online Manager profile. You’ll see some of my profile selections from my SNBL draft league St. Louis Cardinals franchise in this blog post.

The new Manager profiles are targeted to be available for DYNASTY League Baseball Onlinein late March. You will be able to select and use your Manager profile right away in a Greatest Team league and also in the upcoming draft leagues.

Manager profiles are important because they allow you to have your team managed according to the tactical profile that you select if you can’t play your scheduled series live for that given week.

iPad and iPhone
Even though you can’t play a game of DYNASTY League Baseball on your iPhone or iPad (Apple does not allow the Silverlight plug-n) you can view your stats, box scores, game summary and leaders with the iPad and iPhone. You can also change or update your Managerial profile on the iPad or iPhone.

Lineups

The Lineups tab allows you to select your saved lineups and assign them to one of the four primary default lineup categories:

What happens when a player is injured or is not eligible to be in my default lineup? The Lineup Slot Preferences section allows you to select various parameters using sliding scales that total 100% Want your leadoff man to have a high OBP and be good at stealing 2nd? Slide the scale to weight these preferences more heavily.

Lineup Slot Preferences

Choose your category preferences for each lineup slot (both DH and non-DH lineups). All of your preferences must add up to 100%

Managers in recent years are including more pitchers on their roster than in previous years. 15 Batters and 10 pitchers used to be the standard, but today some managers have as many as 13 pitchers on their roster. You’ll be able to select the depth or pitching on your roster by selecting the Number of Pitchers to carry on active roster at the top of the Pitching tab.

Do you want to go with a 5 or 4 man rotation and do you want any of your pitchers to pitch on short rest? The defacto standard used to be a 4 man rotation – now it is 5. Just remember your pitcher Durability rating is reduced by 7 on short rest so you’ll need a deeper bullpen if you decide to go with a 4 man rotation. You can select 4 or 5 man rotation at the Starting Rotation Size menu option.

Starting Rotatation Size: 5-Man Rotation 4-Man Rotation

Select Starting Rotation allows you to slot in your starting rotation and also check off if you want any of your pitchers to start on short rest.

Always pinch-hitting for the starting pitcher if his endurance is down to: Never 0 1 2 3 4 5

Always pinch-hitting for the starting pitcher if there are runners in scoring poisition and his endurance is down to: Never 0 1 2 3 4 5The bullpen settings allow enough flexibility for any era of bullpen tactics style you wish.Bullpen Settings:

Private leagues that are migrating and have already had their draft will launch first. There are three new Commissioner tools that private leagues will have access to. The three new tools include a league creation, scheduler and import player tool.

Public leagues will follow after private leagues and there will be a selection that you can choose to join by clicking the sign up button. Right now there is still work to be done on completing and testing the new live draft room.

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